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Liv2Luv - TIL Dating Portal

Liv2Luv is not a simple dating script but a serious community site-building framework with advanced configuration, web master management tools and capabilities. It is specifically developed to be flexible in configuration and easily extensible with new features/modules. The two major media that are being considered to reach to the end-users are Internet and WAP

Scope

The Scope of the project is developing a product that allows users to seek dating partners, view prospective dating partners, and interact with dating partners and finding a dating partner. These activities should be capable of being carried out through Internet and WAP interfaces.

The Scope includes design and delivery of solution that would meet TIL’s business requirements, interacting and integrating third party solutions as and when required, operating and maintaining the application, day-to-day monitoring, content upload, system optimization, trouble shooting, maintenance of site, upgrade of the system, enhancement etc

Online security, Greater privacy & screening of profiles were crucial concerns

Solution

Quick registration - just a few fields have to be filled in

Single Sign On - For email, dating and other applicaitons

Easy profile maintenance and update - a user decides himself/herseflt what information he/she wants others to see

Multimedia data - a capability to view video and listen to audio files attached to a profile

Quick and advanced search - a capability to search contacts either by a single parameter or by a full list of them, search customization by saving a set of important parameters
Visual Interpretation - New way of creating the profile through Visual Interpretation

Favorites - an ability to save a list of friends, as well as "block" friend;

Message box - internal communication system enables to send internal messages, similar to regular emails. Each user has an inbox with constant storage of income messages, drafts and sent items folders;

Instant messenger - users have an ability to chat online using the instant messenger by choosing an interlocutor and initiating a chat with him. A user can also invite friends from his favorites list;

Salient features

  • A contemporary, interactive look and feel
  • Scalability to withstand increased traffic
  • High performance application environment
  • Dividing administrative options between host level and portal level
  • Compatible for multi-language localization feature

Technical Architecture

The technical architecture of the solution is a realization of a three-tier model. Three layers of the system are business logic, the presentation layer and the database layer. Such division provides independent working of design group and programmers in the project team. The architecture framework developed is based on the well-known MVC Framework but was improved for more usability and upgraded with application specific architecture features.

Technology

Linux - Apache - PHP - Mysql, JavaScript, HTML and AJAX